31 Dec 2017

This postcard is the latest from this interesting building. The movie Sonnenallee came to German cinemas on October 7, 1999. It was directed by Leander Haußmann after a novel by Thomas Brussig and tells about a youth in East Berlin in the late 1970s. The Sonnenallee is an actual street in Berlin that was intersected by the border between East and West during the time of the Berlin Wall, although it bears little resemblance to the film set.

At all it is a set of three postcards, advertising postcards publishing by the Yorck Kinogruppe - owner and co-owner of different cinemas in Berlin and Dresden. It is an interesting view outwards to the Café Moskau, it is so often on the postcards together with Kino International.
Thanks for this good idea! (And my wish for the next time: More people on the postcards.)

10 Dec 2017

Forward is the name of this cinema. It was built by the inhabitants of Erkner, a place near Berlin. When it was opened in 1957 with 288 seats Erkner had about 8000 inhabitants. The postcard is from about 1970. Isn't it gorgeous to have a newly built flat and a cinema around the corner?In 1994 the cinema was demolished and a modern one was built. Movieland Erkner opens in 1996 with two halls and 184 seats at all and still plays.

At all I don't like multiview cards where one little picture shows a cinema. But this postcard is different: it shows 5 cinemas in Berlin. (And there are some good multiview postcards from only one cinema.)You can see on this postcard:

Kosmos, opened in 1962 and closed in 2005.Josef Kaiser and Herbert Aust were the architectures of this cinema with 1000 seats in one hall. For more information and pictures look at great Kinokompendium.

Kino International, opened in 1964.For more information and pictures look at great Kinokompendium.

Filmtheater Colosseum, was planned by famous cinema-architecture Fritz Wilms and opened in 1924.The film producer Arthur Brauner acquired the grounds in 1993 and
built in 1997 a multiplex with 10 halls. For more information and pictures look at great Kinokompendium.

Lunik Lichtspiele, opened in 1961 and closed in 1961.It was planned by Josef Kaiser and had about 500 places.

Filmtheater Gérard Philipe, opened on December 18, 1960 and closed in 1979.Gérard Philipe (1922-1959) was a French actor, very popular also in East Germany.

The logo bft betweenthe photos of cinema Kosmos and Kino International stands for VEB Berliner Filmtheater, the East German state cinema company in Berlin.At all a well done postcard from 1964.

UCI Kinowelt in Düsseldorf was opened on December 19, 1998. This cinema has at all 9 halls with 2759 seats, longest escalator in North Rhine-Westphalia, biggest movie screen in Düsseldorf (24 metres x 10 metres) and of course latest technology.The architect of this interesting building remebering a ship's hull was Till Sattler. The postcard is an advertising card. Unfortunately normal postcards with new cinemas are really rare.

About Me

This weblog shows my collection of postcards with cinema buildings.
The cinema first visiting in my life was in Damascus. I saw there "Gulliver" with my father and sisters. My family was in Damascus because my father's favourite movie was "Der kleine Muck". My favourite movie is "Dead Man", I showed it many times in the 1990s in a little cinema called "Casablanca". And that's why I am working now as an accountant, looking for new adventures ...